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NOW, VOYAGERS The author of The House of the Spirits launches an epic journey into the past. “WHAT KIND OF indestructible material was Roser made of?” Victor Dalmau asks, echoing what readers have wondered about his lionhearted companion from the beginning. In Isabel Allende’s sweeping A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine), we come to see Roser Bruguera as dauntless, a character who refuses to give in to even the most insurmountable obstacles, including the brutality of war and the era’s presumption that a woman’s only value lies in her use to men. The novel opens in Spain during the Spanish Civil War as Franco seizes power; it follows the lives of Roser, a young pianist, and Victor, a medic in the Republican army, as they escape the fascist regime and set sail…

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O, The Oprah (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2020

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